Degree Contracts in South Yorkshire

Academic Degree
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 53 33
Rank change year-on-year +22 -20 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 32 2 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.77% 0.39% 5.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.24% 2.41% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 24
10th Percentile £304 £190 -
25th Percentile £438 £219 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £274 £350
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -21.79% -17.50%
75th Percentile £601 £334 £438
90th Percentile £700 £366 £459
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -11.63% +26.47% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £46.25 £17.75
% change year-on-year -70.81% +160.56% -17.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 59 83 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.47% 15.99% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 70 63
10th Percentile £375 £348 £300
25th Percentile £415 £507 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £550
90th Percentile £675 £704 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £17.75
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate - £11.00 £19.43
Median % change year-on-year - -43.37% -13.67%
75th Percentile - - £21.37
90th Percentile - - £22.15
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.09 £26.26 £18.38
% change year-on-year -42.54% +42.88% -18.33%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +20 27 £554 +102.37% 50
Barnsley - 1 £340 -
Doncaster - 1 £175 - 11
Rotherham - 1 - - 11
Degree
Yorkshire

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Chatbot
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Power Platform
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) GCP
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DHCP
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) LAN
1 1 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (3.13%) RTP
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
1 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) MySQL
1 7 (21.88%) Power BI
1 7 (21.88%) Qlik Sense
1 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Developer
2 11 (34.38%) Software Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (3.13%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 1 (3.13%) Communications Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Support Technician
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (65.63%) HTML
2 10 (31.25%) AngularJS
2 10 (31.25%) CSS
3 3 (9.38%) LDAP
4 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) CMDB
1 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Computer Science
2 14 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 11 (34.38%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (34.38%) Code Quality
3 11 (34.38%) Conversational UI
4 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 10 (31.25%) ITIL
4 10 (31.25%) ITSM
4 10 (31.25%) Scrum
5 8 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (21.88%) Data Science
6 7 (21.88%) Data Security
6 7 (21.88%) Problem Management
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Service Management
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Proactive Management
8 4 (12.50%) Information Security
8 4 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 18 (56.25%) SQL
3 16 (50.00%) Python
4 11 (34.38%) C#
5 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.25%) Bash
7 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (21.88%) Master's Degree
2 7 (21.88%) PMI Certification
2 7 (21.88%) PMP
3 3 (9.38%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) A+ Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CEH
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CISSP
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) GRC
3 1 (3.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) KVM
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) PayPal
2 10 (31.25%) ServiceNow
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) VMware